Red Wine and Longevity
More proof that red wine is healthy for you. The only problem is the quantity that you need to drink, gallons a day. So what's the problem? New York Times Published: November 3, 2006 Will there come a day when we can eat lots of high-calorie, fatty foods and offset the health damage by taking a natural substance found in red wine? That is the titillating implication of a study reported this week by researchers at the Harvard Medical School and the National Institute on Aging. The study found that resveratrol, a substance that has already been shown to increase the life spans of yeast, worms, fruit flies and fish, can also work its magic in middle-age mice. Mice that grew obese on a high-fat, high-calorie diet lived longer, healthier lives if fed high daily doses of resveratrol along with their chow. The resveratrol did not stop them from putting on weight, but it kept their livers at normal size, reduced the risk of diabetes, improved their coordination, and significantly extended ...